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Shipping Report
Auckland, 25 February 1856
Arrived -
Oriental, barque, 500 tons, J C Macey from London.
Passengers -
Charles V Neville, Charles and Ann Fraser, Charles,
Eliza, Helen and Marltilda Barley, William Lawrie,
James, Sarah, Emily, Helena, Alfred, Charlotte and
Harriet Speedy, Henry and Albert Gray, Granville Sharp,
William and Anna Wood, Robert and Henry Seaman, James,
Georgina, John, Georgina, Florence and Emma Barry, Sarah
Lock, Florence Lock, Matthew Scott, James R Bode,
Stanners and Harriett Jones, Ann and Jane Barnard,
Benjamin Hawkins, Michael and Gabriel Lewis, Isabel
Hunsworth, Francis Phayne, Mary Collender, Charles,
Elizabeth, Ann and Elizabeth Hick, Agnes Lyons,
Launcelot, Rachel, Mary, Lot,
Thomas, Samuel, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Eliza and Martha
Giles, Sarah Seymour, Leonard, Hannah and Jemima
White, Alexander and Fanny Lecky, Harry Rudd, Edward
Austin, John J Seymour, Felix Seymour,
Ada Augusta Oriental Giles
(born on the voyage).
The barque
Oriental, Captain Macey, arrived in harbour on Monday at
2.20pm after a pleasant passage of 108 days from
Portsmouth.
The Oriental
sailed from Gravesend on the 4 November;
touched at Portsmouth, on her way down Channel, and took
her departure thence on the 9 November. It
was reported at Portsmouth that the Northern side of
Sebastopol had been taken by the allies. The passage of
the Oriental proved to be a remarkably fine one; she
experienced moderate weather throughout, there never
having been occasion to reef topsails.
A birth occurred
on the 27 November and the “Ocean Child”
was named Ada Augusta Oriental Giles. On the 13
December, the Equator was crossed. And on the 4
January the ship passed within sight of the island of
Tristan d' Acunha.
In latitude 26
degrees South, longitude 30 degrees West she spoke to
the ship ‘Harriett Humbolt’, from Liverpool, bound to
Callao. She passed to the southward of Tasmania and made
The Three Kings on the 20 at 6.00am.
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